Chargers' Joey Bosa behind Melvin Ingram on PFF's top 101 list

Chargers' Joey Bosa behind Melvin Ingram on PFF's top 101 list

Second-year Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa has cracked Pro Football Focus’ top 101 list of players for the second consecutive season in 2017, though he finds himself behind fellow EDGE defender, and teammate, Melvin Ingram.

Bosa snuck inside the top 30 players overall, per PFF, at No. 28 to Ingram’s No. 24. However, neither ranking is anything to sneeze at. Meanwhile, Los Angeles’ star cornerback, Casey Hayward, cracked PFF’s top five players after being selected to the football analysis site’s All-Pro First Team in January.

Bosa finished the season with 12.5 sacks, 70 tackles (54 solo), four forced fumbles, one fumble recovery and one pass defensed. On Oct. 29 Bosa eclipsed former 49ers defensive end Aldon Smith’s NFL record for most sacks through a player’s first 20 games in NFL history with 18.5 by sacking Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, and subsequently had his jersey and game-worn gloves put on display in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Here is what PFF had to say about placing Bosa inside their top 30 players overall on their top 101 list this week.

Joey Bosa is one of the game’s most dominant edge rushers already, at the end of just his second NFL season. Bosa had 75 total pressures over the season, the seventh-most among edge defenders and just eight shy of the league lead. He had three relatively anonymous games over the year, but was as good as anybody over the middle of the year, notching eight sacks in six games and collecting 36 additional pressures over those games.